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By Ulf Laessing TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya has lost $30 billion due to 10 months of protests at oilfields and export terminals but has sufficient foreign currency reserves to keep the country running, a central bank official said. A wave of protests at oil facilities has reduced the North African country's oil output to less than 200,000 barrels a day down from 1.4 million bpd in July before the strikes started. The protests are part of wider turmoil in the North African country since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.

By Steve Slater LONDON (Reuters) - JPMorgan's new solo head of its investment bank said he would be "laser focused" on reducing costs as the industry is likely to face a tough couple of years in terms of growing revenues. "For the next year or two the industry's top-line will probably struggle. The long-term trends are good, but in the short term we need to adjust to the new reality," said Daniel Pinto, London-based chief executive of the corporate and investment bank (CIB) at JPMorgan Chase & Co., the biggest U.S. bank by assets.

The Sports Xchange By Larry Fleisher, The Sports Xchange Offseason spending spree cost Yanks draft picks NEW YORK -- Normally an 85-win team that does not make the playoffs would draft in the middle of the first round the following year. The New York Yankees are not the normal 85-win team. When they have seasons like 2013 and don't make the playoffs, they spend significantly in an attempt to rectify the problem. That is what they did following the 2008 season when they spent over $400 million on left-hander CC Sabathia, right-hander A.J. Burnett and first baseman Mark Teixeira.

Following in Seattle's footsteps, a group of Chicago aldermen has proposed a new ordinance to raise Chicago's minimum wage to $15 an hour. At a news conference announcing the plan, they dismissed concerns that the drastic wage hike could worsen the employment crisis faced by the city's least-skilled job-seekers. It's quaint to think that economics don't matter. But a closer look at the case for $15 presented by the aldermen shows it's not worth the paper it's written on. The text of the proposed ordinance has as its inspiration a report released this spring by a labor union-backed group called the Center for Popular Democracy.

By Sharon Begley NEW YORK (Reuters) - As U.S. health regulators consider what rules to impose on electronic cigarettes, in their tally of costs and benefits they have placed a value on the lost pleasure consumers may suffer if they used the products less or not at all. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says in a little-noticed document released alongside its proposals for regulations in April that the projected benefits of the new rules,...

New data released in May offer the first look at the health, habits and demographics of about 100,000 new enrollees in Cook County's expanded Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act. The picture it paints is bleak. More than half the new patients covered by Cook County's Medicaid expansion program haven't seen a doctor in the past 12 months. Eighty-five percent of them are unable to obtain needed medications. Nearly one-fourth have spent time in a hospital in the past six months and an additional 1 in 5 are worried about finding a place to stay in the near future.

Landon Donovan struck again on Sunday, but his second-half goal could only force a 1-1 tie with the Fire. One week after scoring twice to set Major League Soccer's all-time goals record, Donovan, the Los Angeles Galaxy star, collected his 137th career goal in the 75th minute. But the Fire defense allowed the Galaxy little else, and the resulting seventh tie in 12 games was less a disappointment than earlier deadlocks. "It's very frustrating points-wise, but very encouraging performance-wise," Fire coach Frank Yallop said.

Tinley Park Public Works officials have released a snow report detailing the nearly $1.5 million cost of dealing with the unusually harsh winter. From Nov. 25 to March 25, the village experienced 33 snow events, with a total of 88.75 inches of snow on the ground. Tinley workers used 5,856 tons of salt on the road, costing a total of $296,104,according to the village's report. Tinley's largest snowfall was 12.5 inches on Dec. 31. The village spent $193,861.71 on 54,303 gallons of fuel.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Wiping out the abandoned and decrepit buildings that are the hallmark of bankrupt Detroit could cost nearly $1 billion, and more over time, according to a report released on Tuesday by a special task force appointed by President Barack Obama. The report estimates the city, which filed the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history last summer, will need "as much as $850 million just to address neighborhood blight in the next few years. " Commercial sites, with their potential for environmental problems, will add $500 million to $1 billion to the total cost.

By Chris Taylor NEW YORK (Reuters) - Kay Phillips has been dreading this moment for a very long time. The 59-year-old from Elon, North Carolina, has often wondered how much her commute cost her over the years. She decided to sit down and tabulate it once and for all for Reuters. Specifically, the four years when Phillips was driving 2.5 hours each way to her job and back, every single workday. From little Granite Falls, up in the mountains of North Carolina's Caldwell County, to Chapel Hill for her job with the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Coalition of North Carolina.